The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith SitwellI have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Edith SitwellThe child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.
Edith SitwellIn the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.
Edith Sitwell